Once upon a time, Lázaro Morales <lazaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Hello folks, > > This question is a bit off-topic but the Fedora Community is awesome. This > is the question, How can I from this string: > > my $url = "http://somesite.org/somefile.zip";; # Example URL > > obtain only this sub-string: > > my $file = "somefile.zip"; Of course, being perl, there's more than one way to do it. :) I would do something like: my ($file) = $url =~ m!^http://[^/]+/(.*)!; That would strip off the leading protocol/host, leaving the rest. If there was a subdirectory in the URL (e.g. http://host/some/file.zip) the above would result in $file = "some/file.zip". If you always only want the last part (following any slashes): my ($file) = $url =~ m!([^/]+)$!; This would take http://host/some/file.zip and give $file = "file.zip". -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
